enda walsh came on board, john tiffany, and a lot of the work that those had done certainly was non-musicals also kind of dark, you know. i remember thinking, gee, these people might actually treat it well. i went and had a meeting with enda walsh and he was like, man, i haven't a clue what we're gonna do with it, but i'll tell you, we're not gonna disrespect it. i had been to see a few broadway shows. we don't have a history in ireland of musical theater at all, so i knew nothing about what broadway really was. i have to say, the stuff that i saw, i was taken on the ride. i mean, i laughed when i was to laugh and the tears welled up when the tears were supposed to well. i mean, i went on the ride, but i was not crazy about it as an entertainment format. you know, i wasn't kind of crazy about it, but then what they did, i thought they just dealt with it very sensitively. that was my biggest fear that they were gonna ham it up and turn what we had originally done into something like "boring slowly. ' thankfully, they didn't. tavis: speaking of ireland, since you went there, i read a story. i